Pothead Socialists

I have a confession to make. For the first time, I am watching American Idol.

Actually, it's kind of fun.

There is this GREAT rockin' guy, David Cook, who needs to immediately have a recording contract so I can buy his CDs.

And there is this totally adorable 17-year-old boy named David Archuletta, who you just want to hug and squeeze...and as Paula Abdul said, "hang him from your rearview mirror".

There IS a point to all this...

A couple weeks ago, young David Archuletta sang John Lennon's "Imagine"...('scuse me while I roll my eyes...which is exactly what I did when I heard him begin.) And I admit, he did a great job in rendering the song listenable...in terms of style and voice and arrangement.

No one can fix the lyrics or the idiotic, sophomoric sentiments, of course.

But thinking about and reviewing the actual lyrics—which can be found here— I realized what was wrong, how John Lennon could have penned them, and why so many socialists think they're so true and beautiful, and an ideal Utopian future.

They all smoke weed.

No, I'm not being snarky...honest...hear me out.

The entire song essentially dismisses everything we know about normal human nature whether our natural competitiveness, creativity, striving, problem solving, acquisitiveness, urge to be the "best", to be admired, to overcome challenges, to provide the best for ourselves and our offspring.

The song dismisses all these things with a plea for no possessions, nothing to die for, "sharing all the world" presumably equally, without doing anything for it...or doing much of anything at all.

In other words, just lay around without any motivation, "digging" each other.

Who does that?

Only potheads.

(Even drunks, junkies and speed-freaks are at least motivated to fuck or fight.)

And I realized that almost all the Socialists [liberals] I know still smoke weed.

And all the pieces came together.

They want to create a world order based on the enervating effects of smoking dope.

So we can all live lives as fulfilling and challenging as those 20-somethings' that are still living in Mommy's basement.

Don't anybody tell me smoking weed's not dangerous. It's about to take down the entire Western World.

The Gunslinger